180 FATHER:LASHER. Che 
can oppofe to any enemy that attacks it, by fwelling 
out its cheeks and gill covers to a large fize. 
Et capitis duro nociturus Scorpios iGu. 
The hurtful Scorpion wounding with its head. 
Spine. The nofe and {pace contiguous to the eyes are fur- 
nifhed with fhort fharp fpines: the covers of the - 
eills are terminated by exceeding long ones, which 
are both ftrong and very fharp pointed. 
The mouth is large: the jaws covered with rows 
of very fmall teeth: the roof of the mouth 1s fur- 
nifhed with a triangular fpot of minute teeth. 
The back is more elevated than that of others of 
this genus: the belly prominent: the fide-line rough, 
the reft of the body very {mooth, and grows flender 
. towards the tail. 
The firft dorfal fin confifts of eight fpiny rays , 
the fecond of eleven high foft rays : the pectoral fins 
are large, and have fixteen; the ventral three; the 
anal eight: the tail is rounded at the end, and is 
compofed of twelve bifurcated rays. 
The color of the body is brown, or dufky and 
white marbled, and fometimes is found alfo ftained 
with red: the fins and tail are tranfparent, fome- 
times clouded, but the rays barred regularly with 
_ brown: the belly is of a filvery white. 
coo his, Iind “as very frequent in the Newfoundland 
feas, where it is calléd Scoping: it is alfo as com- 
mon on the coaft of Greenland in deep water near 
fhore. It is a principal food of the natives, and the 
foup made of it is faid to be agreeable as well as 
wholefome. 
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